The Banners

Examples of both banners are shown below.

As is traditional for modern web sites, clicking in the left-hand portion of the banner graphic will take you to our home page.

The Search Box

The search box works in two modes. When data is selected, you are searching the database for genomic data. When web pages is selected, you are searching the "cover pages" that describe NMPDR and and provide user-support. In other words, if you are looking for a gene, protein, or organism, make sure data is selected (it is by default). If you are looking for more general information about how to use NMPDR or what is NMPDR, then select web pages before submitting your search.

Data Search

With the data option selected, you can type any word or phrase into the search box and click GO to search the Sprout Database. The search box will attempt to find an item that exactly matches what you typed in. If it cannot, it performs a keyword search.

The data search box recognizes the following types of names when searching for an exact match.

Web Pages Search

With the web pages option selected, a Google search is performed of the main NMPDR web site. The search thus performed is very flexible.

Searches are not case sensitive. Campylobacter and campylobacter return the same results.

Double quotes can be used to form phrases. "Folate biosynthesis" will return fewer pages than Folate biosynthesis without the quotes.

A minus sign can be used to exclude terms. So, essential -campylobacter will return pages about essentiality that don't have any reference to Campylobacter.

It's important to understand that the web pages search is a search for text, not a search for features or genomes. Entering virulence -campylobacter will not return a list of virulent genes excluding those found in Campylobacter. Instead, it will find pages that have the word virulence but not the word campylobacter. If you are looking for particular data in the database, you need to select data.